ICT_GUY Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 Now this is genuinely useful, I could use this today. £25 from maplins. Maplin > SATA Hard Drive USB Docking Station http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/9f4f0a0203.jpg • Allows you to quickly read SATA hard drives without installing them • Hot swap USB docking bay for all SATA hard drives • Supports both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives • Far easier to use than a USB enclosure • Quick release eject button • USB 2.0 transfer rate upto 480Mbps 4
RabbieBurns Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 I had to buy something similar recently when I was doing some data recovery for a client and none of my machines have a SATA interface. Just plugged the caddy into my laptop USB and the sata disk into the caddy. Was a bit cruder in design than that one but it was a fiver less ;p
PeterW Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 Looks nice, I normally just have a USB enclosure with its lid perminantly off.
ninjabeaver Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 Is there an IDE version as well. I do a fair bit of after school work as well for pocket money. That would be really useful as well.
ICT_GUY Posted May 15, 2008 Author Posted May 15, 2008 Its why I posted it, finally a neat and easy way to access sata HDs. Great for testing, wiping and ghosting? All for £25!
plexer Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 The one from maplin does 2.5 as well it has the same bit to fit in the top as the one you posted. Ben 1
SYNACK Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 (edited) Is there an IDE version as well. I do a fair bit of after school work as well for pocket money. That would be really useful as well. There are adapters avalible but they are not hot plug as IDE does not support this. Here is one that does it but you need to shutdown the computer as it draws power from the computer and IDE does not support hot starting very well. Here is one that is powered seporatly. It looks like Thermaltake also rebrand these: Thermaltake N0028USU SATA to USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Edited May 15, 2008 by SYNACK 1
KarlGoddard Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 Its why I posted it, finally a neat and easy way to access sata HDs. Great for testing, wiping and ghosting? All for £25! without wanting to sound too thick how would you ghost to the drive? Admittedly I've never gone too deep into local disk to disk imaging but I can't see how to do it in Ghost! Any pointers would be great!
SYNACK Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 without wanting to sound too thick how would you ghost to the drive? Admittedly I've never gone too deep into local disk to disk imaging but I can't see how to do it in Ghost! Any pointers would be great! It should just show up like any other hard drive in windows, so long as you are running the windows bit of ghost you should just be able to set it as the target drive and write the image strait to it, or take it from it depending on your needs.
mac_shinobi Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 Amazon.co.uk: TeckNet VS408 USB 2.0 to IDE/SATA Cable for 2.5-Inch/ 3.5-Inch / 5.25-Inch Drive With Power Adapter: Electronics & Photo Maplin > IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 there are different makes of this type of cable etc and it obviously makes the price differ. hopefully im not duplicating a prior post
Busybub Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Can somebody confirm whether you need to run the Safely Remove Hardware Wizard when unplugging a drive or is it hot-swap as in, yank it out? Cheers
contink Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 Can somebody confirm whether you need to run the Safely Remove Hardware Wizard when unplugging a drive or is it hot-swap as in, yank it out? Cheers Pretty sure you run the wizard... if nothing else it checks to see if anything is using the drive before you pull. 1
martynbez Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 i got a couple of these last week! i just turn the power button off on the back and change the disk! works great! i have the pro version whish has esata aswell! 1
Busybub Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Thanks chaps, Thought it might be a bit easier for swapping out backups and save having to log on before removing it, but looks like I'll be sticking with plan A which is the Stardom U6 jobbie that really is yank-it-out and chuck another in...
mac_shinobi Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 i got a couple of these last week! i just turn the power button off on the back and change the disk! works great! i have the pro version whish has esata aswell! Have you got a link to the pro version so I can see what it offers and also how much it costs and possibly where to get it from. Thanks
martynbez Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Scan Computers UK: Sharkoon SATA Quick Port (Enables the direct connection of a 2.5"-3.5" SATA HDD to your PC Via USB) Scan Computers UK: Sharkoon SATA Quick Port PRO (2.5"-3.5" SATA HDD to your PC Via USB/eSATA) + Card reader + 2xUSB Hub the differance between the to is that the pro has esata/usb ports and a card reader!
gloriousglenn Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 I was looking at building my own with an enclosure....but what's the point?!!! Are there any of these docks about that draw power from USB? My current iomega external HDD has a double USB lead that uses one for power and one for transferring data. Just saves on having to carry around a powerpack (and finding a spare socket!). Cheers Glenn
ICT_GUY Posted October 16, 2008 Author Posted October 16, 2008 No because standard PC hard drives require 12V. USB only supplies 5V. AHAAHA! You can buy 2.5 inch adapters that either use 2 x usb cables or a usb and a ps2 connector! I have one, and it works> :0
gloriousglenn Posted October 17, 2008 Posted October 17, 2008 Well....I've gone and bought a Harkoon SATA Quick Port PRO. I reckon it's gonna save me no end of time. Cheers guys. Glenn
Midget Posted October 17, 2008 Posted October 17, 2008 I have one of these bought from SCAN and it's great, although I haven't figured out eSATA.
Ric_ Posted October 17, 2008 Posted October 17, 2008 I'm sure I've seen one of these somewhere that has 2 ports! Can I remember where though?
Midget Posted October 17, 2008 Posted October 17, 2008 Ric: The one I have has USB and eSATA on the back and 2 USB Ports on the front (built in USB hub basically)
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